The mechanism by which patients with portal hypertension develop portal hypertensive gastropathy has yet to be fully clarified. Its pathogenesis is known to be multifactorial, involving elevations ...

Background and Aim: Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) is an important cause of bleeding in patients with cirrhosis associated with portal hypertension. Histologically, the condition is ...

Background—It is believed that severe portal hypertensive gastropathy probably accounts for most non-variceal bleeding episodes in patients with cirrhosis. Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) also ...

Ten days before the current presentation, EGD revealed grade 3 (large) nonbleeding esophageal varices, as well as portal hypertensive gastropathy; colonoscopy revealed nonbleeding internal ...

Bile reflux gastritis (BRG) is a gastro-intestinal condition especially characterized by the reflux of bile into the stomach, further leading to mucosal inflammation along with various other clinical ...

There are two possible reasons why coughing a lot while sick can lead to enough damage to cause vomiting blood. The first is gastropathy. The condition is characterized as bleeding from the stomach ...

2 Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to ...

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Gastric cancer (GC) is a common lethal malignancy worldwide. Gastroscopy is an effective screening technique for decreasing mortality. However, there are still limited useful non-invasive markers for ...

Sometimes, people have poop that's so dark it looks black. It might also have a sticky consistency, like that of tar. If your poop is black, it might be due to a change in your diet, a new ...